The Lavender Hill Mob

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Robert Osborne introduces The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Alec Guinness (as "Holland") in the marvelous opening scene, made better when Chiquita (Audrey Hepburn in a walk-on!) appears, from the Ealing Studios hit comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Holland (Alec Guinness) continues his flashback narration, leading to a scene introducing Mrs. Chalk (Marjorie Fielding) and cohort-to-be Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) in the Ealing Studios hit comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Holland (Alec Guinness) and Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) are not so much lying-in-wait as recruiting, enticing thieves Shorty (Alfie Bass) and Lackery (Sidney James) into their band in The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Quoting Shakespeare and demonstrating both vocation and avocation, Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) is attentive enough to catch Holland (Alec Guinness) making a larcenous suggestion, in The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold in the comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) starring Alec Guinness.